Mary C. Wilhelm
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Education:
2021 MFA in Visual Art, Painting/Drawing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Thesis Exhibition: “Fable”, Harry Wood Gallery
2015 BFA in Visual Art focus in Painting, Summa Cum Laude, with Honors in the Major, Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Awards and Honors:
2025 Best in Show Award, The Abyss, Juried group exhibition, Memento Mori Gallery, Lakewood CO
2018 Drawing and Painting Scholarship award, $5,000, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2014 Utrecht Drawing and Painting Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award $5,000, Office of Undergraduate Research, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL
2013 Mentored Research and Creative Endeavor, $1,000, Office of Undergraduate Research, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, FL
2011 Honors College Inductee, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Honors society of Phi Eta Sigma Inductee , Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 Un-Familiars, Tredway Gallery, Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO
2023 Wildness and Imagination, Hartfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2022 Tall Tails, Baldwin Gallery, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
2021 Fable, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU campus, Tempe, AZ
2018 Mediums, Shampoo Ink, Phoenix, AZ
Exhibitions:
2025 Midwest Salon Deux, Midwest Nice Art Gallery, Aberdeen, SD
Order and Chaos, juried group exhibition, Alpharetta Arts Center, Alpharetta, GA
Mythology & Metamorphosis, juried group exhibition, The Lab on Santa Fe, Denver CO
The Abyss, juried group exhibition, Memento Mori Gallery, Lakewood CO
Animalia, Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
Sharing Mythologies, L7 Gallery, Bellingham, WA
Spirit Animal Totems: Our Kindred Fauna, juried group exhibition, Valkarie Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2024 Fins, group exhibition, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa CO
Mania, juried group exhibition, Covet Art Gallery, Oceanside, CA
Visions, Society for Art of Imagination, Berkeley, CA
Descubrimiento e Iluminación, group exhibition, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2023 Earth & Sky, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ
Un-loveable, Juried group Exhibition, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Call of Wild, Juried online group exhibition, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, Encino, CA
*Good Taste, Juror - Emmett Freeman, group exhibition, The Hive, St. Petersburg, FL
And Now For Something New, Juried Exhibition, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Rising Star Exhibition, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 On the Wing, Juried Exhibition, Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL
Vision Train: Local Stop, The Hive Gallery and Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Beauty in the Beasts, Juried group exhibition, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
Surreal, Juried group exhibition, First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita town hall, Santa Clarita, CA
Ancestral Transmission, Art Nunz group exhibition, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Political Storm 2022, online group exhibition, Las Lagunas Gallery, Las Lagunas Beach, CA
2021 The Galbut Prize, Juried group exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU campus, Tempe, AZ
Summer MFA, Juried group Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU Campus, Tempe, AZ
Myths, Legends, and Lore, group exhibition, Phoenix International Airport, Phoenix, AZ
Monster Menagerie, group exhibition, The Alwun House, Phoenix, AZ
2020 Quarantine Show, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe AZ
Desert Wonders, Curator - Parker Barfield, Ross Blakely Hall, Tempe, AZ
PHX Art Now, Curator - Grant Vetter, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
2019 MFA Summer Juried Exhibition, Juror - Tiffany Fairall, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Every Body, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2018 After Dark, Greg Moon Art Gallery, Taos, NM
New Graduates, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Cosmogny, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Expulsion, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
The Galbut Prize, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
2017 Creatures Re-Imagined, Impasto Art Gallery, Loveland, CO
Indivisible, Moksha Arts Collective, Miami, FL
Artist Roulette, Ale and Witch, St. Petersburg, FL
Yoga Art, Yoga Art Lounge, Melbourne, FL
Square Foot, Aqua Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 Divinity as Culture, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
BFA Graduating Artists Thesis exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
Call of the Wild, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
Mighty, Mighty, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
2014 Guerilla Art Show, Art Student League, Tallahassee, FL
Pin- Up Art Show, Art Student League, Tallahassee, FL
Wet n’ Wild, Oglesby Union Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
The Art Nunz: Taking the Veil! A Ritual in Black and White, curator Carrie Ann Baade, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2013 The Tits: Round Two, Art Student League, Tallahassee, FL
2012 20” x 20”, Art Student League, Tallahassee, FL
2011 Wallflower, Art Students League, Tallahassee, FL
The Tits, Art Student League, Tallahassee, FL
Teaching Experience:
2023 - Assistant Drawing and Painting Professor, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO
2022 - 2023 Adjunct Faculty, Color and Composition, and Drawing I, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
2019 - 2022 Faculty Assistant, Drawing Foundations and 2D Design, ASU, Tempe, AZ
2019 - 2021 Art Educator, Edna Vihel Center, Tempe, AZ
2016 - 2018 Art Educator, Country Day School, Largo, FL
Residencies:
2022 Atayana Biophlium, Parliament of Owls, Online residency
Commissions:
2013 Public Art Commission, Children’s Home Society of Florida, North Central Division, Tallahassee, FL
2015 Private Art Commission, Mural, Private Residence, Crawfordville, FL
2021 Commercial Art Commission, Outta This World Cocktail Menu, The Brickyard, Chandler, AZ
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Publications:
2013 Kudzu Review, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2018 Art and Life with Mary Wilhelm, Voyage Phoenix, Nov 27, 2018. Phoenix, AZ
Art & Life with Mary Wilhelm - VoyagePhoenix - Phoenix
2020 Meet Mary Wilhelm: Professional Painter and Artist, Shoutout Arizona, December 21, 2020. Phenix, AZ
Meet Mary Wilhelm: Professional Painter and Artist – SHOUTOUT ARIZONA
2022 Desert Humanities 2022 Calendar, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Desert Humanities Educational Chuckwalla Pamphlet, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ.